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Senior figures at the BBC were desperate to avoid being blamed for a £100
million IT fiasco and “steered the spotlight in other directions” to save
their own jobs, an employment tribunal has said.

The corporation’s chief technology officer was made to take the rap for the
disastrous failure of the BBC’s digital media initiative (DMI) in a
“fundamentally flawed and unfair” disciplinary process, the tribunal found.

It ruled that John Linwood, the only executive to be disciplined in connection
with the DMI project, which was scrapped last year at a huge loss to
licence-payers, was unfairly dismissed. His lawyer